What we are going to do, in this presentation, is look at the question of vaccinations
in four aspects. First, I want to tell you how my clinical experience led me to understand
that vaccination was important, in a causative sense, in many of my cases. Second, we will
look at the homeopathic perspective on chronic vaccine disease, or vaccinosis. Third, I
wish to present some ideas on how vaccinosis may manifest in the dog and cat. Fourth, we
will consider the question of the efficacy of vaccinations  do they really do
what they are purported to do?

We are looking at this question, also, from my perspective as a practitioner of
homeopathic medicine, not from the allopathic model that assumes vaccines to be useful and
safe with occasional aberrations. Most of us are aware that vaccine-caused diseases 
such as immune disorders, bleeding problems, tumor formation  are recently receiving
attention from the allopathic community. However, the premise that these are exceptions to
a basically safe procedure is not the same viewpoint as that which I am presenting to you
today.

Introduction

My understanding of the importance of
vaccination in animal diseases gradually developed over several years. I began homeopathic
practice without considering vaccination as a factor of special importance. So, what I did
was to consider the totality of symptoms in the case and choose the remedy which seemed to
be the similimum based on that picture. This is classical homeopathic procedure and,
ordinarily, one which would be effective. However, there were a significant number of
cases that would not react curatively. Though there was improvement in some respects,
nonetheless, a cure was not forthcoming. Eventually, through following the case over a
period of time, the image of the remedy Thuya would emerge  which when administered
would resolve the case which had been so difficult.

What, then, is the significance of Thuya as a remedy? Thuya is the most important
remedy to be used for that state induced by vaccination. Other remedies noted to have this
correspondence are Sulphur, Mezereum, Malandrinum, Sarsaparilla, Carcinosin, and Silicea
among others. Malandrinum and Carcinosin are interesting remedies because both are nosodes
 the former from horses with "grease heel" and the latter from a cancerous
discharge from a human being. Thuya, Mezereum, and Sarsaparilla are vegetable remedies
 Thuya from the Arbor vitae tree, Mezereum is known as Spurge olive, and
Sarsaparilla an herbal medicine. Sulphur, the element and Silicea, which is silicon
dioxide or quartz are mineral remedies. Thus we have representations from all the major
remedy classes. It gradually dawned on me that the underlying problem in some of my
difficult cases was a state of illness that had been induced by vaccination. So, rather
than simply use a totality of symptoms to choose my prescription, I found it more
effective to emphasize the rubric "Vaccination, effects of" almost to the
exclusion of other remedies. In this way, I was able to make progress in some very
frustrating clinical situations.

Let me give you a few recent cases that demonstrate the usefulness of Thuya.

Case 1: Jack: ten month old DSH, male cat. Ill since first obtained as a stray
kitten about 12 weeks old. Symptoms primarily fever, diarrhea and vomiting. Associated
symptoms were red gums, retained baby teeth, offensive breath, thirst, swollen cervical
lymph nodes, craving for strange foods (cinnamon rolls, persimmons), blood at end of
penis, licking genitals, dragging bottom on floor, and very strong-smelling urine. When
neutered at age seven months, he developed fever, fear of noise, trembling, warm head,
dilated pupils, pale gums with red line along the teeth, loss of appetite, craving for
plastic, cardboard boxes and house plants, extraordinary hysterical fear on being allowed
outside, dry stools with constipation, prolapsed third eyelids, crying in pain before
passing a fluid stool, and vomiting any water drunk. Several homeopathic remedies were
given during this illness with sometimes definite improvement, almost to normal. However,
the condition always recurred and the previous remedy would then not be effective. Based
on the symptoms of chronic diarrhea of offensive stools, with lots of gas causing
sputtering sounding stool, and crying in pain before urinating  this cat was given
Thuya 30C. Client reported almost immediate improvement with return to "97%
himself" within a few hours. He has continued to be free of most of these symptoms
since this one treatment with Thuya.

Case 2: Jerri, 3 and 1/2 year old mixed chow dog. Afflicted with sarcoptic mange
and recurrent ear infections for 2 and 1/2 years. Treated allopathically without
resolution of the problem (Mitaban and Paramine dips, immune system stimulants, bacterial
extracts, etc.). Skin condition characterized by itching, hair loss, thickened dark skin,
red irritated skin involving primarily the feet, lower legs, around the eyes, abdomen, top
of the head, inside both ears. Patient has also become timid & cautious with the other
dogs. Condition markedly ameliorated by a dose of Thuya 1M with regrowth of hair,
normalization of appearance of the skin, reduction of ear inflammation, and return of
normal personality and behavior.

Condition recurred, in milder form, one year later (after use of homeopathic nosodes
for disease protection) and was resolved by one dose of Thuya 10M.

Case 3: Monster, 7 year old DSH, tiger stripe. Chronic diarrhea for 1 and 1/2 years
with 1- 3 bowel movements a day. Very offensive diarrhea with a lot of gas being passed.
Thuya 200C, one dose, resulted in marked improvement, with a perfectly formed stool within
three weeks.

Case 4: Mei-Ling: six months old, female Sharpei dog imported to Brazil from
Kansas. Never well since first obtained, now is diagnosed with a seborrhea (biopsy) and
skin fungal infection. The skin is dark, itchy, with red, scaly spots. These lesions
spread rapidly over most of the body. Client says the puppy was normal until receiving
"puppy shots". She began to lose hair all over, especially from flanks and front
legs and on the back near the tail. Treated with oral anti-fungal drug and two ointments
without improvement. No effect from treatment with Sulfur 6X; temporary improvement with
Rhus toxicodendron 200; rapid recovery after Thuya 200. Change for the better was very
rapid with hair growing in faster than ever seen before with this dog. Another dose of
Thuya 200 needed three months later, after exposure to plaster and chemicals used in
refinishing a room. Other remedies were needed, months later, for some lingering minor
symptoms, but Thuya clearly turned this case around.

You can see from these cases that progress was dependent on use of Thuya, the
anti-vaccine remedy. Though this was not necessarily the final remedy for these patients,
it seemed to be a necessary prescription. It is as if vaccinations have the ability to
block response to a constitutional remedy, an obstacle that must be dealt with before cure
can be underway.

Homeopathic Discovery of Vaccinosis

Of course, this "discovery",
which was actually more the re-invention of the wheel, prompted me to search the
homeopathic literature for information about the relation of vaccination to disease. The
most important source on this phenomenon is the book

Vaccinosis and Its Cure by Thuja with Remarks on Homeoprophylaxis by J. Compton
Burnett, M.D. The first edition of this book appeared in London in March 1884.

It is here that vaccination is first clearly described as a chronic disease. The effect
of vaccination, besides the physical effects of stimulating an antibody response, is to
establish a chronic disease  one that is long-lasting, indeed, in some cases a
life-long, condition.

Burnett refers to the chronic disease that results from vaccination by the name
Vaccinosis. So, we will adhere, in this discussion, to the same convention. Vaccinosis is
to be understood as the disturbance of the vital force by vaccination that results in
mental, emotional, and physical changes that can, in some cases, be a permanent condition.

Burnett gives several cases that demonstrate this. Several of them are in infants and
children, showing the profound effects of vaccination on the growing organism. However, I
wish to emphasize the long-standing effects of vaccination so will mention a couple of
example cases to you.

Case 1: A woman, of about age 50, suffered greatly for 20 years from a condition of
terrible pain in the eyes. The attacks of pain were so severe, that she would be confined
to bed for days at a time and for some periods as long as six weeks. In spite of many
examinations and treatments by allopathic doctors, no relief was forthcoming. The patient
was confined to a darkened room, her head bound, and crying from the pain. These attacks
were always preceded by what seemed to be "flu" and the frequency of these
episodes was such that she was confined to her room about half of every year.

As this patient had been extensively vaccinated, the use of Thuya as a remedy was used
by Burnett. Thuya, has a type of cephalgia similar to that described by the patient and,
indeed, use of Thuya 30C successfully resolved the condition in six weeks. A follow-up in
one year showed that the cure held.

Case 2: A young woman, 19 years of age, suffered from severe headaches for nine
years. The attacks were characterized by a pain in the back of the head as if it were
being squeezed in a vice with throbbing of the head as if it would burst. These attacks
occurred once or twice a week. Associated symptoms were habitual constipation, poor
appetite, a tendency towards styes, eruption of boils, cold feet, easily made motion-sick,
tendency to faint, skin sensitive to wind which become rough with cracks forming in the
lips. The patient had been vaccinated against smallpox at three months of age, seven years
of age, and again at fourteen years. In spite of this vaccination, she had actually come
down with smallpox at age 10! She was treated with Thuya, in low potency, over a period of
several months and was eventually cured of her symptoms. A two year follow-up confirmed
the stability of the cure.

Many other cases are described in
Burnetts little book. Lest you think that only head pain is the outcome of
vaccinosis, let me hasten to give brief descriptions of some of the others.

 Wasting away (marasmus) of an infant
being nursed by a recently vaccinated mother.

 Insufficient growth in children with
paralysis on one-half of the face.

These cases and others, in subsequent books, began to present to the homeopathic
community the nature of vaccinosis. Indeed, it was possible, from these cases for Burnett
to declare vaccinosis a variant of the sycosis miasm. As you will already know, sycosis is
characterized by affections of the skin, the lymphatics, the immune system, susceptibility
to fungal infections, susceptibility to cold, damp weather, arthritis, affections of the
blood, and many other symptoms of this sort. Most importantly, it is typical of the
sycotic miasm, and therefore of vaccinosis, to develop growths of all types  cysts,
polyps, warts, tumors and cancers.

Some of Burnetts other books, especially Tumors of the Breast and their
Treatment and Cure by Medicines, Curability of Tumors by Medicines, and Delicate,
Backward, Puny and Stunted Children especially bring out some of the variety inherent
in vaccinosis and the tremendous damage it can do once established.

One more thing I will mention before leaving the subject of Burnetts work. This
is his interesting observation that the person that is most susceptible to contracting the
disease being vaccinated against is more likely to die when they do come in contact with
it. In other words, rather than protecting some individuals as planned, it actually makes
them more susceptible. The vaccination having created a chronic disease ahead of time, can
predispose the patient to a more serious natural illness which combines with the
established vaccinosis.

As we shall see later in this presentation, there is evidence that this is what has
happened in vaccinated populations. Does this extend our understanding of vaccinosis? We
can expand our definition to say that vaccinosis is the establishment of, instead of the
acute natural disease, a chronic condition which now has the time to develop a multitude
of manifestations not ordinarily seen. Another way of saying this is that the process of
laboratory modification of a viral disease to make a vaccination strain is the conversion
of the disease from acute to chronic. The virus has been changed so that its natural
tendency to arouse a strong response it gone. Instead it can be introduced into the body
in a form that does not elicit much of a reaction. The result is the establishment of a
chronic disease that has never been seen before in clinical practice. To illustrate what I
mean by this, I would like to briefly discuss aspects of three of these vaccine diseases
 chronic canine distemper, chronic rabies, and chronic feline panleukopenia.

Chronic Canine Distemper

Canine distemper, a very old disease of dogs, is well known in
its clinical manifestation. According to The Infectious Diseases of Domestic Animals,1the major symptoms are:

 Eruption around the mouth
where hair meets the naked skin of the lips.

 Swelling of the feet, red
footpads.

 Pneumonia.

 Eruptions on the skin of
pustules, on the abdomen, inside the thighs, and elsewhere.

 Emaciation.

What I am suggesting to you is that, because of repeated vaccination, the acute disease
of canine distemper has changed form to appear as a variety of chronic diseases. In the
table below, the acute form of the disease (on the left) has become the chronic (or new
acute) disease on the right:

What I am suggesting here is that the original disease, Distemper, has been, for the
most part, replaced by Distemper Vaccinosis, a chronic disease of great variety.
This chronic disease also creates a susceptibility to new acute forms of distemper like
parvovirus. Because by its nature, chronic disease is more developed than an acute
disease, the many ramifications of this condition have been given new names from the
mistaken idea that they are different and distinct diseases.

Chronic Rabies

Lets now consider Rabies in the same way. Some of the
symptoms of rabies are known to be (similar for dogs and cats)2,3:

 Restlessness, uneasiness,
apprehensiveness and a developing viciousness.This is most apt to be manifested toward
strangers.

These symptoms of rabies vaccinosis are not
familiar to us because, until vaccines were widely employed, we never saw rabies in a
chronic form in our patients. Even now, these effects of rabies vaccination are
generally unrecognized even though follow-up of changes in dog temperaments and physical
condition after rabies vaccination will readily confirm this.

Chronic Feline Panleukopenia

The third, and final, disease we are to consider is Feline Panleukopenia. The symptoms
of this dread disease are:

 Lassitude.

 Inappetance.

 Fever.

 Rough, unkempt coat.

 Indifference to owner or
surroundings.

 Rapid weight loss.

 Dehydration.

 Vomiting.

 Profuse, watery, diarrhea
(often blood-tinged).

 Mucopurulent discharges
from the eyes and nose.

The changes to a chronic disease condition are shown in this table:

Acute
Form of Feline Panleukopenia

Chronic/New
Acute

Lassitude; indifference to
owner or surroundings.

Lazy cats, not active, lie
around most of the time.

Inappetance.

Appetite problems, finicky,
not wanting to eat well.

Fever.

Chronic fever, for weeks, with
few symptoms except for cervical gland enlargements.

Feline leukemia, in the primary stage, is characterized by fever, malaise, anorexia,
lymphadenopathy, leukopenia, anemia, and thrombocytopenia.5Thus, in many ways, chronic panleukopenia looks like feline
leukemia. It is like the acute syndrome of panleukopenia stretched out in time to so that
it becomes chronic.

Probably, by this point, many of you are wondering what I can mean about panleukopenia
(or any of these diseases) becoming a chronic disease like feline leukemia. I am speaking
from the homeopathic perspective that understands that every being, including viruses,
have a vital force. This vital force, which is the life force or chi, is what is the
energetic pattern that develops and maintains the physical form. It is a downstream flow
of information from the energetic to the physical. When this physical aspect is changed or
blocked, as happens when the chronic vaccine disease is established, then the life force
behind the disease manifests itself in a different way. These new forms, we give
new names.

We havent really eliminated anything by vaccination, we have just changed its
shape. I picked these three diseases for discussion because of their importance to
dogs and cats who have suffered from them for thousands of years. They would seem to have
a susceptibility to these diseases that has never been satisfied. Now, with the extension
of these diseases into a chronic form with vaccination, the influence of these diseases on
the dog and cat species has never been so great as today.

Are Vaccines Effective?

The last thing I want to consider in this
discussion is the larger question  are vaccines really effective? To answer this
question is more difficult than it would seem at first. We dont really have a system
for tabulating the incidence of the common diseases of dogs and cats, for example. There
are figures for some of the reportable diseases of livestock, but the rapid turnover of
these animals makes long term studies almost impossible. However, what we can do is kind
of a reverse process of what we usually find ourselves doing as veterinarians. Instead of
using animals to study human disease, lets use human disease to answer our question.
There are statistics for the common human diseases and we can use these to answer our
question about the efficacy of vaccinations.

Smallpox

Lets start our evaluation with
smallpox which was the disease for which Jenner developed his method of vaccination in
1796.6

There are two things of interest around this time of Jenners early work. First is
that James Phipps, the eight-year-old boy initially vaccinated by Jenner in 1796, was
re-vaccinated 20 times, and died at the age of twenty. Second, Jenners own son, who
was also vaccinated more than once, died at the age of twenty-one. Both succumbed to
tuberculosis, a condition that some researchers have linked to the smallpox vaccine. It is
apparent that from the beginning, doctors were confused about the question of vaccine
protection. They thought that because the specific syndrome of smallpox did not appear
that the vaccine was effective. They did not see that the overall level of health of the
boys receiving the vaccine was equally an indicator of vaccine effectiveness. Another
thing of importance to understand in evaluating the significance of smallpox vaccination
is that smallpox and other communicable diseases were declining before vaccination
programs were enforced. This may be attributed to the sanitation reforms and nutritional
teachings instituted around the mid-1800s as much as to the vaccination programs as
these other communicable diseases, for which there was no vaccination, were also declining
at the same rate. The interesting thing, however, is that the incidence of smallpox
actually increased once vaccination programs were instituted. In Jenners
time, there were only a few hundred cases of smallpox in England. After more than fifteen
years of mandatory vaccinations, in 1870 and 1871 alone more than 23,000 people died from
the disease. Later, in Japan, nearly 29,000 people died in just seven years under a
stringent compulsory vaccination and re-vaccination program.

This increase in smallpox deaths was associated with a noticeable lack of protection
 not the best combination of events. For example, in Germany, over 124,000 people
died of smallpox during the same epidemic. All had been vaccinated. Additionally,
(unaltered) hospital records consistently show that about 90 percent of all smallpox cases
occurred after the individual was vaccinated. This lack of efficacy and increase in
disease incidence, while other communicable diseases were declining, led to the refusal of
smallpox vaccination by some countries. This resulted in a drop of the incidence of the
disease that is quite remarkable. In Australia, when two children died from their smallpox
shots, the government terminated compulsory vaccinations. As a result, smallpox virtually
disappeared in that country (three cases in fifteen years). When England began to reject
vaccination, then the incidence of smallpox deaths decreased accordingly.7

Polio

This is another disease for which people
assume that vaccination has made a great difference in incidence. However, lets look
more closely at the facts.8 From 1923 to 1953, before
the Salk killed-virus vaccine was introduced, the polio death rate in the United
States and England had already declined on its own by 47% and 55% respectively. Statistics
show a similar decline in other European countries as well.9 When
the vaccine became available, many European countries questioned its effectiveness and
refused to systematically inoculate their citizens. Yet, polio epidemics also ended in
these countries as well. Additionally, as with smallpox vaccine, the number of reported
cases of polio following mass inoculations with the killed-virus vaccine was
significantly greater than before mass inoculations.10 Though
these facts are readily available, the mass vaccination against polio has continued with
the result that most of the cases of this dread disease are now attributed to the vaccine.
In 1976, Dr. Jonas Salk testified that the live-virus vaccine, used almost exclusively in
the United States since the early 1960s, was "the principle if not the sole
cause" of all reported polio cases in the United States since 1961.

The Federal Centers for Disease Control recently (Feb. 1992) admitted that the
live-virus vaccine has become the dominant cause of polio in the United States today.
According to CDC figures, 87% of all cases of polio between 1973 and 1983 were caused by
the vaccine. More recently, from 1980 through 1989, every case of polio in the U.S.
was caused by the vaccine. During this same time period, three of the five people that
caught polio during foreign travel were previously vaccinated against the disease.

Measles11

Measles is an especially interesting
disease for us to look at because of its close similarity to canine distemper. The measles
vaccine was introduced in 1963, yet in the United States and England, from 1915 to 1958, a
greater than 95 percent decline in the measles death rate had already occurred.12In addition, the death
rate from measles in the mid-1970s (which was several years post-vaccine) remained
exactly the same as in the early 1960s (pre-vaccine), e.g., .03 deaths per 100,000.
Once again, the efficacy of vaccination in prevention of this disease has not been
established. According to a study conducted by the World Health Organization, chances are
14 times greater that measles will be contracted by those vaccinated against the disease
than those who are left alone. According to Dr. Atkinson of the CDC, "measles
transmission has been clearly documented among vaccinated persons. In some large
outbreaks.... over 95 percent of cases have a history of vaccination..."

In addition, of all reported cases of measles in the U.S. in 1984, more than 58 percent
of the school age children were "adequately" vaccinated.

In 1985, the federal government reported 1,984 non-preventable cases of measles. But 80
percent of these so-called "non-preventable" cases occurred in people who had
been properly vaccinated. More recent outbreaks continue to occur throughout the country,
sometimes among 100 percent vaccinated populations.

In spite of the evidence for lack of efficacy of this vaccine it is still strongly
promoted. This continued use of a useless vaccine, however, is not without its price. It
has been determined that the measles vaccine may cause ataxia, learning disability,
retardation, aseptic meningitis, seizure disorders, paralysis and death. It has also been
investigated as a possible cause of or cofactor for multiple sclerosis, Reyes
syndrome, Guillain-Barre syndrome, blood clotting disorders, and juvenile-onset diabetes.
Another additional harmful effect is that the disease has changed form, and now affects
primarily a different age group. The peak incidence of measles no longer occurs in
children, but in adolescents and young adults. The risk of complications of pneumonia (3%)
and liver abnormality (20%) have increased as a result.

Also, before the vaccine was introduced, it was extremely rare for an infant to
contract measles. However by 1993 more than 25 percent of all measles cases were occurring
in babies under a year of age. CDC anticipates a worsening of this situation and
attributes it to the growing number of mothers who were vaccinated during the last 30
years and therefore have no natural immunity to pass on to their children. The
implications for our having changed the natural disease into this new form are immense.

Whooping Cough (Pertussis)14

Just as we have seen with the other
diseases already discussed, the incidence and severity of whooping cough had begun to
decline long before the pertussis vaccine was introduced in the 1940s. From 1900 to
1935, in the United States and England, before the pertussis vaccine was
introduced, the death rate from pertussis had already declined by 79 percent and 82
percent, respectively.15 However, once again, the
usefulness of this vaccine is in doubt. Some studies indicate that the effectiveness of
the pertussis vaccine may be as low as 40-45 percent. Further evidence indicates that
immunity is not sustained. During an epidemic in 1978, of 85 fully vaccinated children, 46
(54%) developed whooping cough.

During a ten month period in 1984, the state of Washington reported 162 cases. Of the
cases aged 3 months to 6 years, 49% had been fully vaccinated against the disease. In the
same year, of the 560 cases reported to CDC in the age bracket of seven months to six
years with known vaccination status, 46 percent had received vaccine protection.16 (

In 1986, in Kansas, 1300 cases of pertussis were reported. Of the patients whose
vaccination status was known, 90 percent were "adequately" vaccinated. As with
measles vaccine, there are several known or suspected harmful effects from this vaccine.
These included SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome  research shows that children die
at a rate eight times greater than normal within three days after getting a DPT shot),
encephalitis (the pertussis vaccine is used in animal experiments to help produce
anaphylactic shock, and to cause an acute auto immune encephalomyelitis), retardation and
learning disorders, fever as high as 106 degrees  with pain, swelling, diarrhea,
projectile vomiting, excessive sleepiness, high-pitched screaming, inconsolable crying
bouts, seizures, convulsions, collapse, and shock. In studies, approximately 1 in 200
children who received the full DPT series suffered severe reactions.

In the 20 months prior to July 31, 1992  250 deaths and 7,200 adverse reactions
linked to whooping cough vaccinations had been reported to CDC. In addition, the US Public
Health Service announced that as of Nov. 16, 1992, some 3,200 pertussis vaccine claims
against the US government had been filed.

Conclusion

We have considered the vaccination
question from several aspects. We have looked at the way in which I think that routine
vaccinations can result in the production of chronic disease in animals and I have made
some specific suggestions of the symptoms that result.

Also, we have considered the question of vaccine effectiveness with the surprising
evidence that vaccines do not actually protect populations from disease  though they
do seem to modify the pattern in which the acute disease manifests.

I realize that this topic is a controversial one and that many will disagree with my
conclusions. However, what I have observed is that if one can look at this question with
an open mind, one will be surprised at the amount of evidence that is actually there. If
you look at the larger perspective of disease incidence (of any type) in the weeks and
months following vaccination, you will soon see confirmations of what I am presenting to
you today. And once this is seen, the way is open for you to question the whole edifice.